When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Love all God's creations, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident. Riches take wing. Only one thing endures. And that is character.